Meanings of fail upon in English

Never had his memory been known to fail upon even more trivial occasions.

Any comment must fail upon the sublimity of that great "perhaps."

That is a wonderful invention if only it can be made to work without fail upon all occasions.

In short, there is no old ground we can fail upon, but some new foundation rises again to support us.

A supply is at the same time reserved in the seed-plots to replace such as may chance to fail upon removal.

You think that your best plan will be to take boarders; while I think you could not fail upon a worse expedient.

Both times, however, the heat shield failed upon re-entry, destroying the missile's payload: a dummy warhead.

The romance of Brockhurst failed upon her tongue.

For some years past coffee has entirely failed upon the island and cotton is seldom seen growing.

The first was so beautiful that the eye failed upon him, flinching aside as from a great brightness.

Now there is no human failing upon which we look with more affectionate lenience than that of keeping a diary.

However mighty they were of body, at the last they failed upon the mountain, and fell with their burthen to the ground.

Though during that night her mind had been otherwise clear and collected, memory had utterly failed upon one point: she could not remember her name.

"A nobler protector never woman had," she assured me, and I felt a hot pearl of moisture fail upon my brow.